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"This book argues that the examination of sports media within cultural and media studies is organized around more than just a shared topic: mediated sports. What counts as 'sports media' in journals, books, and conferences are extremely diverse; they can cover athlete expression on social media, shoe commercials, gender in sports commentary, indigenous name change activists, and fantasy sports. Besides being mediated and, in some cases, loosely connected to sports events and leagues, it is hard to see what they all share that could serve as the foundation for a unified field of study. Jason Kido Lopez argues that sports media are defined by genre, which is reflected in their industries, within their content, and by their audiences. Throughout the media and cultural complex, sports and sports media are built on the genre of live and real competition and, therefore, to study sports media is to study that genre. Each chapter will explore how the genre is constructed in commodification of mediated sport, representation within sports media, athlete expression, sports fandom, and gaming around sports. This book will be of interest to those studying sports media as well as media and cultural studies, but also can be used as an introductory survey of the research on sports media from a media and cultural studies perspective"--

Opioid misuse is now a worldwide epidemic and major public health issue with widespread implications. This fascinating book provides a collection of compelling arguments on how the course of the opioid epidemic can be changed. It offers an overview of the historical origins of opioid addiction, a summary of the current state of the worldwide epidemic and an examination of the likelihood of success for current and proposed solutions. Specific chapters focus on why some people are affected by addiction, the effect of policy and regulations, changing trends in opioid use, detoxification, the financial cost of addiction treatment, and proactive measures to prevent addiction. Drawing upon both past and current academic research as well as personal accounts, ideas and concepts are presented in a clear and accessible narrative. This book is a convenient single source of information for healthcare professionals, students and individuals personally affected by opioid addiction.

A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time, it pursued a controversially rigid fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany descended into the darkness of the Nazis, but this book asks another vital question: how, and how far, have the Germans since reinvented themselves? Trentmann tells the dramatic story of the Germans from the middle of the Second World War, through the Cold War and the division into East and West, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunited nation's search for a place in the world. Their journey is marked by extraordinary moral struggles: guilt, shame and limited amends; wealth versus welfare; tolerance versus racism; compassion and complicity. Through a range of voices - German soldiers and German Jews; environmentalists and coal miners; families and churches; volunteers, migrants and populists - Trentmann paints a remarkable and surprising portrait over 80 years of the conflicted people at the centre of Europe

Chapter 1. Constituents of Evaluation Practice -- Chapter 2. Credible Methodology -- Chapter 3. Validity in Framing an Evaluation's Purpose and Questions -- Chapter 4. Validity in Evaluation Designs and Methods -- Chapter 5. Validity in Measures and data collection -- Chapter 6. Validity in Analysis, Interpretation, and Conclusions -- Chapter 7. Validity in Evaluation Utilization -- Chapter 8. Validity in performance measurement -- Chapter 9. Explication of Methodological Assumptions: A Metaevaluation -- Chapter 10. Working with assumptions in humanitarian assistance evaluation -- Chapter 11. Conclusion.

Preface -- Prologue: social purpose, challenges to achievement, the possibility of universities with specific social purposes and a response -- Chapter 1 Universities and Social Purpose: setting the scene for a conversation on social purpose -- Chapter 2 Participation, social mobility and social purpose -- Chapter 3 Teaching in Universities and Specific Social Purposes -- Chapter 4 Research and social purpose -- Chapter 5 Community engagement and social purpose -- Chapter 6 Competitive individualism, intellectual independence and imagining some alternatives and consequences -- Chapter 7 Governance of universities' social purposes and monitoring, measuring, evaluating or researching universities' progress -- Epilogue.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: the bigger picture -- Chapter 2: Measuring, Counting, Quantifying -- Chapter 3: Geographies of Quantification -- Chapter 4: Numbers, Markets and Meritocracy -- Part II: a closer look -- Chapter 5: The Quantified School -- Chapter 6: Scores, Bodies and Affect -- Chapter 7: Market Failure -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Quantification, Schooling and the Self.

Chapter 1 – Regimes of mobility in times of accelerated crisis, Leandros Fischer -- Chapter 2 – Deportable mobilities: The many lives of the European deportation regime, Martin Bak Jørgensen -- Chapter 3 – Rethinking mobility regimes at the local scale: Possibilities and limitations, Martin Bak Jørgensen & Leandros Fischer -- Chapter 4 – Dubai and Cyprus as geographies of social mobility between Europe and the Middle East, Jaafar Alloul & Leandros Fischer -- Chapter 5 – Between solidarity and de-solidarisation: COVID-19 as a crisis of mobility, Leandros Fischer -- Chapter 6 – Essential workers without essential rights: COVID-19, migrant workers, and trade unions, Mark Bergfeld & Martin Bak Jørgensen -- Chapter 7 – New crises, new mobilities, and the promise of solidarity, Leandros Fischer.